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C. H. HAPGOOD.

SCALE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1910.

Patented June 8, 1915.

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APPLICATION man JULY us, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT: OFFICE.

CLARENCE H. HAPGOOD, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOB T TOLEDO SCALE COMPANY, OF

TOLEDO, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.-

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I Specification of Letters Patent:

Patented June 8, 1915.

Application filed July 18, 1910. Serial No. 572,474.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE H. HAP- 0000, a citizen of the United States, residing scales having indicating mechanism operated from a moving part of the scale. Where the indicator mechanism is of more than an inconsiderable mass, the sudden movement of the scale member due for example to placing a heavy article upon it is apt to injure or wear the mechanism fortransmitting motion to the indicating device.

It is the object of my present invention to reduce or obviate injury to the scale by reason of such sudden impulses by interposing between the scale member and the mechanism a spring or other resilient device which will take up the shock or jar.

My invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a scale partly broken away to show the operating mechanism; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 of that part of the apparatus to which my invention particularly relates; Fig. 3 is an elevation partly in section of the scale at right angles to Fig. 1; and Fig. 4. is a detail erspective;

The particular form of scale in connection with which I have illustrated my invention is a platform scale with a computing cylinder indicator though it will be obvious that the invention is of wide application and may be used in connection with any scale having indicator mechanism operated from the scale through connections liable to injury by .shock or pm. In this particular embodiment shown in the drawings -the base 1 supports the standards 2 in which the beam 3 is pivoted. The beam is counterwei hted as at 4 and carries the latform 5 whlch is maintained in substantially horizontal osition by the rod 6 connected 'to the lin 7 which is pivoted at a suitable point beneath the standard to the platform. The indicator mechanism consists of a cylinder mounted on trunmons within the casing 8 provided at one end with a pinion 9 which meshes with a rack 10. The rack is extended in the form of a rod 11 by which it is connected to the scale beam.

The apparatus thus far described is old in the art as shown for example in the patent to Hapgood, No. 903,083, patented November 3, 1908. Q

As indicated above it has been found that where the connection between the beam and the indicating mechanism is-inelastic a cerpivotally tain amount of injury is done to the mechanism of the indicator by shocks and jars caused by the sudden placing or dropping of heavy articles upon the platform. In my improved scale this is obviated by the following construction. The scale beam is provided at its end with an arm or bracket 12- extending at right angles thereto and provided near its end with a pair of lugs13 with horizontal perforations near their outer ends. A casting 14. is pivoted between these lugs in such a manner that it is capable of a rocking movement, by means of a plate 14' secured to one edge of the bottom of the casting and provided with downwardly extending perforated cars 14' 14 which receive screws or pins 14 extending through the lugs upon the bracket 12 for this purpose. The perforations in the ears Li -14 may be square'if desired and the pins 14;", corresponding in shape at the portions thereof which engage these perforations in order that the rotation of the pin may be with respect to the ears 13 on the beam'where longer bearings are provided. If desired, however, the pins may be rounded throughouttheir length and the holes in the ears 14' corresponding in shape. A substantially triangular leaf spring 15 is secured at one edge to the casting by a reinforcing strip 16 and screws 17 and at its opposite corner is provided with a socket 18 for the reception of the connecting rod 19. This socket is split and provided with lugs 20 through which extends a screw 21 by which the socket may be tightened around the connecting rod. It may also be tapped if desired for greater security and the connecting rod corre ondingly threaded at its end.

t will be obvious that the spring normally occupies an intermediate position from which it may be flexed in either direction and is therefore double-acting. The beam 3 is connected with a pendulum counterbalance 23 through a stirrup 22, band 24 and segment 25. The pendulum counterbalance, however, is shown in the patent to De Vilbiss 839,736, dated December 25, 1906, and forms no part of my present invention.

What lLcla-im is:

1. In a scale, a beam, a rocking member pivoted thereon and carrying a leaf spring, and connections for movin g'the indicating mechanism connected to the leaf spring.

2. In a scale, the combination with the beam and indicating mechanism, a rack and pinion for operating the indicating mechanism and connections between J the beam including-a rocking member pivoted to the beam and carrying a leaf spring to which the rack is connected.

3. In a weighing scale having a rotary cylinder indicator, a beam, 3 having an offset member 12, lugs rocking member 14 pivoted between the lugs, a spring 15 secured along one edge. to the rocking member and provided at its outer end with a collar 18, a rack bar 19 secured at one end within the collar, and a pinion upon therotary cylinder with which the rack bar cooperates.

4. In a weighing scale having a beam and a computing drum, a connecting rod for ro the rack and I 'cator, a pinion on 13, upon the member 12, a

the latter, a rack rod, the rack of which meshes with said pinion, a casting pivoted as to the beam, a spring connecting the casting and rack rod said casting being overweighted on that side of its pivotal axis on which the inion is located.

6. In a weighing scale of the class de- 40 beam and a rotary indithe shaft of the latter, a rack rod, the rack scribed, having a over-weighted on that side of the axis thereof upon which the pinion is coated and a leaf spring rigidly connected to the rack red at one end and at the other-to the casting at a point thereof at one side of the f therack rod be 50 am and a spring connecting the cast 30 of which meshes with the pimon, a casting pivoted to-the beam and ivotal 

